As a blogger, you always look for more traffic isn’t it. One of the ways to skyrocket your blog traffic is to have your blog visitors to submit articles from your blog that they think are good to bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, Delicious and others. The more people that bookmark your blog pages and the more bookmark sites your web pages are bookmark at, the better the chances are that other people will be able to find you.

To get the votes, you can add badges and mini icons of different bookmarking on your blog.

Here are the sites that offer social bookmarking buttons and badges:

1. Digg badges
2. Stumble Upon buttons
3. Reddit buttons
4. Dzone buttons
5. Delicious tools

Or you can use wordpress plugin such as sociable to make life easier. Now if you want something catchy enough to grab your visitors’ attentions, you can try creating a a unique, simple and clean bookmark box for your blog. To create this bookmark box, you can check out the photoshop tutorial by folks at BlogPerfume. I have created mine and you can see it at the end of this post.

For creating each link to bookmarking sites, you can get them here.

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Must check out:

• How To Find PageRank-Passing Wordpress Blogs
• Get Thousands of Free One Way Links To Your Site

Content, appearance, usability & visibility are the basic web design principles & aspects which should always be kept in mind while preparing a commercial web design. Once you are over with this phase, you should search for a best domain host for registration of your website that is providing services compatible to your requirements. Usually it is included in the package provided by webhosting net companies. Apart from this, on line website building, free blogs and forums, e carts, free email accounts are also offered by these web hosting services providers. Due to increasing competition in the market more or less all of them are giving cheap web hosting services.

Create a new action by clicking on the Create New Action Button located at the bottom of the palette. Then, make a set by clicking the Create New Set button on the Actions palette. A dialog box will appear. In here, you must type a specific name for every set. In the Action dialog box, you should assign an action to a particular set, define a function key and apply a color.

Next is to record the action. Photoshop automatically records your steps. Every step you take will be recorded as well as the settings. If you made any mistake, you will be able to correct them later.

If you are through, click the Stop button at the bottom of the Action palette.

Check the Action so that it will function well. Make sure that it lives in a Set. It must contain at least one command. Every command must have settings associated with it and a check mark next to it.

An action can be edited. You can reorder commands, delete commands, reset a command setting, add a command in mid-stream, insert a stop, record again and troubleshoot it. To reorder command, in the Action palette, grab the command with the cursor and drag it up or down. In deleting commands, just select a command and press the Delete key. Double click on the Command in the Action if you want to reset it. To add a command in mid-stream or anywhere in the action, select the command and click the action button. Inserting a stop will allow you to apply settings to a step. To Record Again, simply select Record Again on the Actions Palette. Photoshop will allow you to reset the settings. Photoshop has a sort of diagnostic tool that will help you see what was causing the trouble in your Action.

You can play the Action in three ways. You can play it from the palette, just set your file up and click on the Play button. You can also use function keys. The dialog box will allow you to assign a function key so that you will be able to play the Action by simply pressing the key. You can use the button mode that is selected from the Actions side menu.

If you have any question or have made your own action script, please share with us. I’m also selling 942 action scripts mega pack, check it out…

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Part-Time Designer

I create a new video tutorial today. I saw a tutorial at Veerle’s Blog on how to create pins in Illustrator. So I’d thought maybe I could create a video tutorial on how to create realistic looking pins in photoshop.
Hope you enjoy the video below…psd also provided

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What will you get with the Click and Drag Graphics Package:

1. Starter Templates

These “starter templates” are simple blank templates with a few subtle “effects” that spice them up. Even though these templates are simple, they look very professional with their subtle effects.

You get starter templates for headers in 3 different sizes (650, 700, and 750 pixels wide) and each cover shape (ebook, box, cd, report, ezine, member card, etc.). With all these different variations, you’ll be getting hundreds of templates to choose from.

2. Click And Drag Objects

This module is what makes this package so easy to use and so unique. No other package offers anything like these Click & Drag objects. With these Click & Drag objects you can literally create a professional and eye catching design for your site in minutes.

You get all kinds of Click & Drag objects to choose from like:

Text – already preformatted with the proper font, size, and layer style effects. Just drag it over to your header or cover, change the text to your own product or site name, and you’re done.

Text Bars, Squares, Circles, Stars, and Corners – these are the little shapes that go behind your text to make it stand out more and give it emphasis.

Horizontal Bars – These go across your whole header or cover to divide them into portions or to give that finishing touch.

All of these objects come on their own layers and are completely customizable. So you can resize them, rotate them, change their colors, change the text to what ever text you want, etc.. You can customize them to your liking.

3. Layer Styles

Layer styles add an effect to your layers with one click. So if you want your text to look “cool”, you can add a spicy effect to it by simply clicking on one of the layer styles. Just type your text, click on the layer style button, and your text will get an effect. Max has compiled and created all of the cool text effects you can find on all of the popular designs out there.

4. eCover Action Scripts

Max has recorded the steps he took to turn 2D covers into 3D covers. So all of the distort, resize, and other commands got recorded and can be played back with just a few clicks, and turn a 2D cover into 3D in seconds.

So basically, you start with a blank template or a “starter template. You then create your own design. And finally you play the eCover action of your choice and the cover turns into 3D right before your eyes.

5. Other Templates

In addition to the Starter Templates in Module 1, you will also get templates for all kinds of other mini site graphics like order buttons, footers, backgrounds, and even simple HTML mini site templates. So you’ll be able to create all the graphics for your mini site with the packag.

6. Video Tutorials

This package comes with easy to follow, step-by-step, screen capture video tutorials. Everything is broken down for you in simple terms, so even if you’re a complete newbie you’ll be able to get started right away.

7. Graphics Swipe File

You’ll get over a hundred of Max own favorite designs that he has done for his clients (covers, headers, order buttons, footers, and backgrounds). This swipe file will save you countless hours of frustration and “being stuck” for ideas again.

8. Resources

Max will be sharing with you his favorite design related resources like:

• Where he get his stock images from.

• Where he get his fonts.

• Where he get his ideas for designs.

• A cool place to get hundreds more layer styles, patters, brushes, textures, and more.

• And much more…

This resource module will save you hours of trial and error time trying to locate all of these places on your own.

And MORE..

This is a complete design package. I highly recommend for newbies in graphics design to get this package as you can experiment with the graphics, use it in your design and plus, your clients will be impressed;)

Go to Click and Drag

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I bought Kris Mainieri’s E-book, “PC Secret Formula“ – on how to speed up your computer. The practical steps are very easy to apply and it works!!
I print it out, bind it and keep it next to my computer as reference. Why not check it out yourself and speed up your computer’s performance.

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Part-time Designer

These scripts will do the job for you automatically. Just follow these steps:

1. Download the script and unzip it.

2. Open your photoshop. Then press Alt + F9 on your keyboard. This will open the the action box.

3. Click the small arrow on the right and choose load actions.

4. Find the the action scripts and press load.

5. You can see the script is in your action box.

6. Expand it by clicking the small arrow on the left and select step 1. Then select ‘play’.

7. A template will open. Design your ebook (add title, pictures, color..yadee..yadaa…) anyway you like..

8. The final step is to select the step 2 and click play..and wait for a sec and walla!…your new ebook cover:)

Download the free action scripts below:

1. Box cover
2. Ebook cover

Anyway if you are too busy to design the ecover just hire a designer. Click here to find Affordable E-cover Designer for your digital products.

or check out my design below:p

Best Regards,

Part-time Designer

Ewen Chia just released a great WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) webpage editor to build your own webpages. So even if you don’t know html, this could be useful especially for newbies.

And as an additional bonus, you’ll also be given a 77 page complete user guide and 1 hour 20 minutes+ of step-by-step website creation video tutorials are absolutely FREE. Most webpage editor out there does not even come with video tutorials, even if you did, you’d have to pay for it.

What so special about this webpage editor:

* Comes With Over 100+ Professional Website Templates Included FREE!
* Equipped With Convenient Built-in FTP Software For Instant One-Click Publishing!
* Certified 100% Clean With Absolutely Zero Spyware, Adware Or Malware

But that is not it. What I like about this offer is that it comes with a one-time special offer “Ultimate Website Graphics” Mega Package of 4,735 professional website graphics which was created for thousands of dollars…

• 918 Bullets And Attention Grabbers!

• 298 100% Secure Logos!

• 105 Attractive Ecovers!

• 33 Guarantee Frames!

• 942 Guarantee Seals!

• 707 Order Buttons!

• 1,178 Price Stickers!

• 493 Scribbles!

• 41 Stickies!

TOTAL: 4,735 Website Graphics + Bonus 20 Headers & Footers!

You can instantly grab it for an extremely low (and worthwhile if I may add) investment of just a one-time $37 immediately as Ewen Chia WILL be raising the price very soon…Anyway this is just optional, you could just scroll down to the end of the page and skip to the webpage editor download page.

Download the free software here

Here’s the step-by-step ‘Corner Peel Image‘ video tutorial..

Instructions:

1. Let’s start with creating a new document, with 400px by 200px with white
background color.

2. Now, using the Rectangle Tool, draw a shape with any color you want. (mine
is blue)

3. Go to the layer and click on the title, rename it to
“rectangle”.

4. Then go to Layer on the tab—> Rasterize —> Layer.

5. Next, select the “pen tool” and draw a triangle:

6. A new layer will be created so rename the layer to “triangle”.

7. Now, select “Elliptical Marquee Tool” from tools and create a
rounded shape on the triangle shape just like below:

8. Then go to tab—-> click Edit —> Cut:

9. Press CTRL + D on your keyboard to deselect the marquee.

10. Still on the same layer, go to tab —> select Layer —> Layer Style —>
Blending Options..and apply to it the following settings:

Gradient Overlay

Color for Gradient Overlay

Drop Shadow

…so you will have a flip image:

11. Select Move Tool from tools and drag the flip image onto the corner of rectangle
shape:

12. Select the rectangle layer then go to tools and select the Eraser Tool.
Go to Brush Preset picker and select Hard Round 9 pixels:

13. Now erase the left over corner:

14. Add your text, and you are done!

Download the .psd file here.
And you could use the flip image on any image you want:

Also get yourself a Page Peel Script (demo on top right corner on this page) for just $8. Click for more info…

Best Regards,

Part-Time Designer